Formerly a struggling single twenty-something

Playlist of the Moment: Love Songs

On Valentine’s Day freshman year of college, because I like depressing myself, I decided to make a mix CD of love songs. This was back in 2003—when I started college, I’d been very excited to learn that my new laptop had a CD burner, since iPods weren’t quite mainstream yet and mix CDs were, in my eighteen-year-old estimation, the coolest thing ever.

Twelve year later, methods of music consumption have changed quite a bit. My love life, sadly, has not changed at all. But although Valentine’s Day makes me sad, and it gets worse with every passing year, I’ve always had a thing for sappy love songs. (I also love romantic comedies, so apparently I’m a glutton for punishment.)

I love that Lifehouse is on here (more than once, yay!) but Y&M is my least favorite song of theirs! I’ve been a diehard fan since 2000 and that song was written before they ever even had a record deal, but the lyrics were changed along with the song title to make it more appealing for the radio, which is why I don’t like it. Breathing is one of my all time favorite songs, though! I am a sucker for lists like these and also sappy love songs – sometimes you just need to listen to them, right?